Oral history interviews of The Memory Archives collection

Overview

Collection Summary

Oral history interviews of The Memory Archives, recollections of survivors of the Holocaust and their descendants recorded by students from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and the International Media Center (IMC) at HAW Hamburg.

Provenance

Students from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and the International Media Center (IMC) at HAW Hamburg donated their oral history interviews from The Memory Archives to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in March 2015. The collection was produced by the students of the two schools who formed international teams that recorded the experiences of residents of the Chicago area with ancestral roots in Hamburg, Germany. More information about The Memory Archives can be found at www.thememoryarchives.org.